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Woman Reading in the Studio
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corotc. 1868
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Woman Reading in the Studio
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Date Created: c. 1868
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 32.5 x 41.3 cm (12 13/16 x 16 1/4 in.) framed: 50.5 x 59.1 x 6.4 cm (19 7/8 x 23 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: I. de La Rochenoire, by 1875.[1] Alexandre Dumas [1824-1895]; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 February 1882, no. 13, as _La Lecture, figure_). (Dumas sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-13 May 1892, no. 22).[2] (Dumas sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2-3 March 1896, no. 12). Gaillard collection, by 1905.[3] Ferdinand Blumenthal [d. 1914], Paris; [4] his son Count Cecil Pecci-Blunt [d. 1965], Paris, until at least 1946.[5] (Wildenstein & Co., New York); sold 27 January 1960 to Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA. [1] Lent by I. de la Rochenoire to _Exposition de l'oeuvre de Corot_, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1875, no. 135. [2] According to an annotated copy of sale catalogue in the M. Knoedler library, the painting was purchased by Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris. If, however, this is true, it is unclear how the painting came to be included in the Dumas estate sale in 1896. [3] Alfred Robaut, _L'oeuvre de Corot_, Paris, 1905: III:116, no. 1570, listed the Gaillard collection in the provenance. [4] According to Wildenstein and Co. précis, dated 27 January 1960, in NGA curatorial files. [5] Pecci-Blunt had the painting on consignment with Jacques Seligmann in 1941 but decided not to sell his collection at that time. Receipt for the return of the paintings to Pecci-Blunt dated November 19, 1941, Jacques Seligmann Papers, Archives of American Art, Box 75, folder 30. Lent by Pecci-Blunt through Seligmann to _The Functions of Color in Painting_, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, 1941. See Correspondence between Seligmann and Phillips in Jacques Seligmann Papers, Archives of American Art, Box 130, folder 5 (copies NGA curatorial files). Lent by Pecci-Blunt to _Exhibition of Paintings by Corot_, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1946, no. 60.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on paperboard on wood
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